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Open Thread: July 2010, Part 2

9th Jul 2010

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I find this, from the original msnbc article, depressing

Is it depressing because someone with a Ph.D. in math is playing the lottery, or depressing because she must've have figured out something we don't know, given that she's won four times?

[anonymous]16y10

The former. It is also depressing because it can be used in articles on the lottery in the following way, "See look at this person good at maths, playing the lottery, that must mean it is a smart thing to play the lottery".

1Blueberry16y

Depressing because someone with a Ph.D. in math is playing the lottery. I don't see any reason to think she figured out some way of beating the lottery.